Amy B. Scher discusses her memoir, This Is How I Save My Life, what to do when all available treatments have failed, Trump's presidency, and the power to heal.
The immune system, meant to protect a body from foreign invaders, works too assiduously, sees danger where there is none, turns on itself. Such conditions lend themselves to metaphor.
Poet Stacy Szymaszek discusses her most recent collection, Journal of Ugly Sites & Other Journals, the "notebook genre," and claiming a city—ugly sites and all.
The self was attacking the self. My body was blaming itself: it didn't matter how many times I said or anyone else said, “It isn't your fault.” I believed it was.